Bad, bad, really bad, stinker bad television

BALTIMORE — I would have rather watched American Idol or the Biggest Loser or The Bachelor. And I hate all of those shows. Really dislike reality TV.

Given the choice between one of those moronic shows on Wednesday or the Preakness Draw on ESPN, it would have been a no brainer. The Preakness Draw, on ESPN, lasted an hour. The whole process of giving a horse his Preakness post position and odds takes bbabout, oh, five minutes. I would have taken the no talent Idol singers any old day.

Baltimore, we have a problem.

It got so bad that ESPN was doing anything to fill time. They even had Hank Goldberg riding one of those toy horses at the ESPN Zone. But Hank’s time to shine was still to come.

He made no friends at UAlbany when he uttered this thought to a national television. He said Big Brown running against this field was like the Super Bowl champion New York Giants playing the University of Albany in a football game.